'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Raquel - did you read it one BIG gulp, cause yeah. I had problems with the crisis du machina, but so much else was SO sublime, plus Moore undermined the ending enough to make me happy.
If you've never read V FOR VENDETTA, go out there and get it, pronto!
I read it in two sessions...I read the first half, more or less, a couple nights ago at work. Then today I went back and reviewed the first half, because I was starting to see all the connections. I finished it today.
My only complaint, okay, my only two complaints are that the ending felt rushed to me. Also, while the artist managed to include a ton of information and recurring motifs, I wasn't thrilled with how he drew the female characters, at least in the first few issues. I thought Sally Jupiter was a transvestite. It got better, but I had some problems with the art. For example, I was convinced that Rorschach's secret identity was who he turned out to be, but when his face is revealed for the first time, I thought, "Oh, it's NOT him...the hair color's the same though, which is weird."
But otherwise, I'm all kinds of impressed. It's one of the best things I've ever read about the world as seen by the Boomers. Also, I like Moore taking the overly-moral genre of comic books and creating a purposefully non-moral comic book. Everything is shades of grey.
Just won the bid for my first ever e-bay item -- the Fray series. Thanks for all the info./advice upthread. I can't wait to get my hands on these. Yippee!
I wonder if someone will make a Buffy trivia game. I'd so buy that.
There used to be a Buffy trivia book. I bought it at an extreme discount ages ago, when our nearest Crown Books went out fo business, but the questions were all really easy.
Yeah, I have the book. I think Sue bought it for me! Maybe I'll make my own game using the trivia book.
Jess Nevins has put together an extremely useful set of annotations to 1602, vol. 1.
Check this out: Things from Another World just sent out my Fray #8!!!
What the hell? Do they really think there are CASUAL fans of a 8-issue Joss mini-series who can just wait an extra 10 days for the final issue that took a jillion years to come out???
The only reason this does not totally piss me off is that since I bought 2, now one can stay all pristine and perfect.
Do they really think there are CASUAL fans of a 8-issue Joss mini-series who can just wait an extra 10 days for the final issue that took a jillion years to come out???
Uh, standing right here?
I'm pretty sure she meant it jokingly, Jess.